STORY OF GIRLS' SCHOOL SONGS GREAT & JOLLY DAYS BOOK

GREAT DAYS & JOLLY DAYS

The Story of Girls' School Songs

Hard to Find Out of Print Book by Celia Haddonm, Foreword by Joyce Grenfell

"Most of us remember our schooldays," writes Celia Haddon, "women perhaps a little more than men. Forgetting the names of recent acquaintenace, we can still remember Miss Cehsterman, the English Mistress or Willy, Miss Williams, the games mistress. And with these thoughts of school come odd snatches of music, occasional lines, or sometimes whole verses of a completely remembered school song. Have you, reader, forgotten yours? Probably not."

With delightful humour, a light and affectionate touch, and an unerring - and unmawkish - snese of pathos and nostaligia (for many of the schools she mentions as well as their songs, have disappeared, and others are threatened) Celia Haddon recaptures the world of girls' education over a hundred years and more, reflected in the lines they sang:

"Of Bedford High School's fame we hear,

Of Cheltenham's school, a big one;

But what of them? Today we greet

The Girls' High School of Wigan"

That was written around the turn of the century, when to go away to boarding school and all was high adventure, learning science spelled new intellefctual excitement, and hockey meant freedom - well, anyway, freedom from whalebone stays.

Over 150 songs are quoted, bearing on everything from Latin to lacrosse. With a lovely collection of nearly eight photographs to embellish the text and reinforce the mood, this book will delight not just those who have sung those songs, but their husbands and daughters too.

Illustrated with black and white photographs throughout

• Hardcover Book with Dust Jacket
• Dust Jacket Torn
• Scarce and Valuable Title
• First Edition 1977
• Great Coffee Table Book
• Size 20cm W x 26cm H
• 128 Pages in Good Condition

ISBN 0856131105

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